Little Penguin Quilts Through the Year

Friday, June 30, 2017

Three Cheers for Red, White, and Blue!

Having finished my yellow Rainbow Scrap Challenge sewing for June, and not yet knowing what July's color would be, I decided to do some seasonal sewing this week, and pulled out some red, white, and blue.

The family of a quilting friend who passed away last year offered her stash for those of us in her quilting group to share, and since I love fabric with stars, I knew I would enjoy making something out of this collection. We are invited up to my SIL's cabin this weekend, and I thought this would be the perfect fabric to make her a little something to say thanks for the invite.

After cutting some 2.5 by WOF strips into 4.5 inch bricks, I sewed them into a red, white, and blue table runner that I think will work nicely for a mountain cabin. It measures about 17 x 29.

It was fun to pretend to decorate my own table for the holiday weekend with this table runner!

Of course, since I am in that "one thing leads to another" mode lately, I couldn't put the scraps from this project away and move on to something else, so I decided to keep going with red, white, and blue, and ended up with this little mini to keep for my house.

It was fun to start with, "I wonder if I could..." and end up with a (sort of) flag! Since taking this photo, I've finished the quilting and will be stitching the binding down this evening while watching a little TV.

Love these projects with the patriotic theme and colours. You are such a neat(as in good!) quilter.I loved your list of likes and checked out the fritillary butterflies we get here. Learned something new!I have never seen a yellow headed blackbird but apparently we get them here too. Would love to see one. I love seeing our red winged blackbirds. I'm so envious of your lettuce growing. We are having so much rain, everything growing is starting to suffer. Hope your 4th won't be as sodden as our Canada is!

great curvy one! Have you heard about the group collecting welcome to America 40" quilts to give to immigrants? We reflect the saying on the statue of liberty"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...